They weren’t gaining anything with the free service, now they might get a bit of money from it.

5 year olds are pretty cringe

Their aggressive, misleading and clickbait ads, particularly as YouTube sponsorships. From my experience the product is fine, but the ads make it seem like their covering up for something.

Podcasts are just a RSS feed with an mp3 downloas link. It’s trivial to open the RSS feed in your browser and locate the mp3 download link. Download the mp3, open it in any audio editor, edit out the ad. Or find the folder where your podcast app stores the mp3s and edit them from there.

Personally, I’m OK with podcast ads as there’s limited opportunity for tracking or personalization. If we don’t encorage podcasts to remain as an open platform, they will be swallowed up by Spotify.

The store has a profit margin, so the store values the item significantly less than the sticker price.

The store has a profit margin, so the store values the item significantly less than the sticker price.

You can be a pirate? Why join the navy when

Star Wars despecialized edition.

In 1997 George Lucas updated the original trilogy with new special effects, and every release since then has been the new special edition.

Fans have gone through a painstaking archival effort to track down the “despecialized” original release in as high quality as possible.

$180 for a new 4TB USB SSD? Hard drives are becoming pointless.

Between power, hardware, and harddrives, an *arr stack works out more expensive than this unless you self host a bunch of other services. I self host because it’s a fun hobby, not to save money.

I think it’s useful terminology, but only very generally and in hindsight. Web 1 is a pretty clear era in the 90s and early 2000s, characterized by simple static blogs and personal websites, and email. Everyone knew this would be big, but nobody figured out how, that was the dotcom bubble. Web 2 began with the rise of big tech companies like Google and Facebook in the late 2000s, it has been characterized by social media apps, centralized platforms hosting user created content, funded by targeted advertising and data mining. Web apps became possible and smartphones took over. Every product became a subscription service.

I think we’re at the start of web 3, but it’s hard to say what that is yet. The big tech companies are crumbling and there’s increasing unrest at the old system of web 2. Fed up users are turning to platforms like this. There’s a lot of demand for crypto nonsense like NFTs. AI is changing the way we do everything.

I hope that web 3 is the age of decentralization because that would be awesome, but it’s impossible to predict the future.

I don’t think he wants to fight the alphabet soup, I think he wants to watch the alphabet soup.

Why not, after you clicked on a post in a piracy community?

Also r/piracy stayed shut for a while with a direct and easy link to this community. That’s how I found it.

Why would a fat person be unable to recline?

Its uploading every keystroke to their servers. It’s literally a keylogger.

Recline yourself. It’s literally the only solution. Once one person reclines, everyone has to.

Recline yourself. It’s literally the only solution. Once one person reclines, everyone has to.

Usenet doesn’t need a VPN because it’s a direct download, it’s encrypted with TLS.

For torrents, you will have to put your torrent client behind a VPN, but it’s recommended to leave everything else(e.g. *arrs) not behind a VPN so it doesn’t misbehave. If you’re using docker, you can use a container with a built-in VPN like https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/config-options/

I will as well, unless it’s necessary for work/school, or to participate with the government, or not using it will isolate me from friends and family.

Google has close to absolute control of the internet, which is now an essential tool to participate in society. The amount of power they have is insane, it rivals governments.